How to Fall in Love with the Future
«Can futures literacy restore our sense of agency?»
From Soviet techno-utopianism to cyberpunk fatigue: why the image of the future broke and who is repairing it. Foresight tools, preferred futures - and the responsibility to build rather than watch.
The pace of change is outrunning societies’ ability to make sense of it - future fatigue has gone mainstream.
Foresight methods have worked in corporations and governments for decades: scenarios, signals, horizons.
Can optimism be taught - or is it a function of institutions and trust rather than education.
The Russian audience lives in the gap between a great tradition of imagining the future and a deficit of faith in it.
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